May 17, 2013
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 5/17/13)—What does it take to be a cross-cultural missionary? What are the misperceptions about global Christian service in today’s world? Are missionaries always college and seminary graduates?
These questions and more will be tackled at the weekend conference, Embrace the Cause, on August 9-12 at the Green Lake Conference Center in Green Lake, Wisconsin. Anyone who senses a call to cross-cultural Christian service is invited...
May 7, 2013
La situación venezolana cada día se empeora. La semana pasada hubo golpes y gritos de protesta en el recinto de la Asamblea Nacional. El jueves se presentó un documento pidiendo que las elecciones pasadas sean anuladas. El presidente de la Asamblea, Diosdado Cabello no le concede la palabra a ningún legislador que no afirme la “elección” presidencial de Nicolás Maduro. La congresista opositora María Corina Machado fue tirada al suelo y pateada por los chavistas, según se pudo ver en los...
May 3, 2013
La situación venezolana cada día se empeora. La semana pasada hubo golpes y gritos de protesta en el recinto de la Asamblea Nacional. El jueves se presentó un documento pidiendo que las elecciones pasadas sean anuladas. El presidente de la Asamblea, Diosdado Cabello no le concede la palabra a ningún legislador que no afirme la “elección” presidencial de Nicolás Maduro. La congresista opositora María Corina Machado fue tirada al suelo y pateada por los chavistas, según se pudo ver en los...
April 29, 2013
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 4/29/13)—Katrina and Kyle Williams, from Everett, Washington, have been endorsed by American Baptist International Ministries (IM) to serve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with IM’s partner, the Baptist Community of Congo at the Pastoral Institute of Kikongo. They will assist with training pastors and their spouses in theology, literacy and church and rural development.
Kyle is currently a graduate student in psychology at Central...
April 25, 2013
[Episcopal Relief & Development -- Press Release] On April 25, World Malaria Day, Episcopal Relief & Development’s NetsforLife® malaria prevention program is joining with its partners to celebrate the gains made so far in stopping this deadly disease, and call...
April 24, 2013
- To fulfill a mission to deepen relationships with international partners, Global Ministries – a joint ministry of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church Disciples of Christ – will begin a “Congo Initiative” this summer.
April 18, 2013
- 1) Fifty years later, church leaders respond to Birmingham letter. 2) Church leaders comment on national tragedy, CDS offers advice for parents. 3) Nigerian Brethren experience another church attack, hold annual meeting. 4) PAG in Honduras, Brethren in Nigeria and Congo, Friends in Rwanda receive GFCF grants. 5) Disaster and mission staff offer support after fire in South Sudan village. 6) Sponsor a peace and reconciliation scholarship in South Sudan. 7) 3,000 miles campaign of On Earth Peace...
- The Church of the Brethren’s Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) has given several grants recently, including an allocation of $60,000 to PAG in Honduras, and $40,000 to an agriculture project of the Rural Development Program of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN--the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). Also receiving grants of smaller amounts were a Brethren group in the Congo, and a Friends church in Rwanda.
March 27, 2013
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/27/13)—After having spent 35 years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ministering the love of Jesus and God’s healing power and wholeness, Dr. Daniel E. Fountain, MD, age 82, passed to his eternal reward on February 12, 2013. Fountain will be remembered as a true health practitioner, with a passion for people and a passion to teach coming generations of health practitioners what the Lord taught him.
In order to advance Fountain’s vision of Christ centered...
March 26, 2013
Mistaken identity led to beating of pastor in January; unrest subsiding
Mar 26, 2013 Yaoundé, Cameroon
Abraham Bakari CAUM/ANN staff
Sunday’s mass lootings in the capital of the Central African Republic have not affected Seventh-day Adventist Church operations, but several incidents in recent months have taken a toll on a few church employees amid the ongoing civil war.
The...